IMAGE DISPLAY UNIT AND IMAGE DISPLAY METHOD

• Main Author: INOKUCHI TAKESHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 16.05.2013
• Subjects: ADVERTISING; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PLURAL DIVERSE PRIME-MOVERS INVEHICLES; ARRANGEMENT OR MOUNTING OF PROPULSION UNITS OR OFTRANSMISSIONS IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH COOLING, AIR INTAKE, GASEXHAUST OR FUEL SUPPLY OF PROPULSION UNITS, IN VEHICLES; ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICESUSING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION; AUXILIARY DRIVES FOR VEHICLES; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; EDUCATION; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; INSTRUMENTATION OR DASHBOARDS FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; SEALS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image display unit and an image display method capable of suppressing decrease of visibility of a driver to an image display part mounted on a mobile body, as well as displaying, to the driver, an image to be displayed on the image display part even if a display failure occurs in the image display part.SOLUTION: An image display unit 10 includes: display means for displaying an image in a display part 110 mounted on a mobile body; terminal equipment detection means for detecting communication terminal equipment 130 existing in the mobile body; communication control means for displaying, in a display screen of the communication terminal equipment, the image to be displayed in the display part 110 mounted on the mobile body if the communication terminal equipment 130 is detected in the mobile body by the terminal equipment detection means.